Vrodok the Troll wrote:
| On 16 Feb 2004 03:16:26 GMT, in alt.comp.freeware, Kruppt
| <
[email protected]>, wondering whence the lambs &
| piglets, bleated & squealed:
|
|| I need a freeware solution as far as a player that will allow
|| me to listen to these files below.
||
||
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/ram/mx/md_04.ram
||
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_library/ram/mx/md_08.ram
||
|| When I click on the above links I receive the below error,
|| using Realpayer:
||
|| SMIL: Bad duration expression near line 13: 10
||
|| If you are able to play/listen to the above links, what
|| freeware player are you using to do so? In your debt,
|| TIA, Kruppt
|
| Media Player Classic, version 6.4.7.8
| (
http://www.pegasoft.cz/hledejveverzi.php?veverzi=14205).
|
| "Real Alternative" (in place of files from Real.com); version
| 1.21 RC2 -
|
http://www.pegasoft.cz/hledejveverzi.php?veverzi=14169
Vrodok, I am convinced that the "Real Alternative" file set is,
in fact, just another set of files from Real Networks. The file
set includes one file that's a RN Logo (an Icon, their
copywrighted image). All the files in the set contain an
identifier indicating Real as the originator. It sets up a file
named "Cookies.txt." That file on my system contains all the
sites I've visited and downloaded from using this pair of
programs, including, yes, Chicago Public Radio. I am dead certain
that both Real Player and Real Alternative are spyware: slam
dunk.
A third media player, jetAudio was named spyware by someone on
this group who knows more about the technology than I do.
However, I can keep any of these from "phoning home" with my
firewall. I just do the initial installation, turn every possible
option off, and never let it contact the vendor again to "update"
itself.
Media Player Classic is the media player that makes use of the
Real Alternative file set (Codecs: COde/DECode) in order to
render Real streams. I don't believe that MPC has bad manners;
just Real Alternative.
Richard
